No. 585 in Persian
متوقف
Stopped; halted.
In a sentence
ماشین ناگهان در وسط جاده متوقف شد.
The car suddenly stopped in the middle of the road.
In this sentence, "متوقف" functions as the past passive participle to indicate the act of stopping explicitly.
تصمیم گرفتم پروژه را برای مدتی متوقف کنم.
I decided to halt the project for a while.
Here, "متوقف" is used in an active context, implying the deliberate action of halting or pausing something.
عملیات به دلیل شرایط جوی متوقف شده است.
The operation has been stopped due to weather conditions.
"متوقف" is used here again as a past passive participle, denoting an action that has been subjected to cessation possibly by external circumstances.
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